Re: My Usual Confusion

On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 15:32:49 +0200 CEST "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@pinc-
software.de> wrote:
> "Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish-CFLBMwTPW48UNGrzBIF7/[email protected]> wrote:
> > I think, there is a difference between the disk system's pretty 
> > name 
> > and the partition's type. E.g. we have several flavors of FAT, but 
> > only 
> > one FS module handling all.
> 
> Okay, wait before you answer to mail last eMail - that's not really 
> sufficient, or even fits the problem very well.

That was close. I was just about to hit Alt-R. :-)

> We would need a way to enumerate all known types for a given 
> partition 
> type, and even have the option of specifying one manually if needed.

I supose you mean disk system name by `partition type' (the partition 
type would be what Tyler named kPartitionTypeFAT32 for instance). I 
don't think, it is necessary to enumerate those types. The partition 
will be labeled with the exact type, and, given a 
BPartition::GetDiskSystem(), we also know the disk system for a 
partition.

> The file system itself would need to have access to these fields on 
> initialization, i.e. the dosfs add-on would have to decide to 
> initialize a volume using FAT12/16/32 based on this value.

I think, one would initialize with the FAT FS and parameters like "fat-
type = 32". The GUI add-on for FAT would offer the selection of the 
type.

CU, Ingo